"You must act in your friend’s interest whether it pleases him or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win." |
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. |
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. |
A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. |
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage |
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. Ours is a rich legacy. Rich but lost. |
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation. |
All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for. |
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand |
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. |
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it |
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses |
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. |
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America |
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. |