Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.