I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete…but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put...

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the...

A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it contained a slur. If you want to win in party action, I take...

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.

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.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are...

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...

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty,...

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal...

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

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.