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

You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

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

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.