“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

We grow by our dreams.

If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.

The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

If you ever forget how much you really mean to me, Every day I will remind you.

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

Learn the rules, and then forget them.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.