The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
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.