Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Character

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Democracy

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

Dreams

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

Friends and Friendship

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Individuality

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

Liberty

The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.

Loyalty

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Peace

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Power

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Promotion

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

Self-esteem

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

Students

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Victory

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

Youth

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.