"America is nothing if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us."

"Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible."

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

"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."

"No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise."

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."

"Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own."

"Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life."

"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organization of common peace."