We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

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

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

The seed of revolution is repression.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.