Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

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.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Without dependability one's ability may be a liability instead of an asset.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

The seed of revolution is repression.

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

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