“Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.”

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night’s rest was best in any event.

I’d rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

To insist on strength … is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

I’ve always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that’s what we’re supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

President Biden should put Americans First.