I believe most profoundly in the duty of every American to exalt the national consciousness by purifying his own motives and exhibiting his own devotion.
Business is all right so long as it is not sordid, and it cannot be sordid if it is shot through with ideals.
I have not come here to make an extended address.
America is at a point, gentlemen, where it is more than ever necessary that she should understand her own ideals not only, but be ready to p...
I am immensely interested in fighting for the things that I believe in.
At whatever cost America should be just to other peoples and treat other peoples as she demands that they should treat her.
It is one thing to entertain fine principles and another thing to make them work.
I have such an inveterate confidence in the ultimate triumph of the truth.
The only thing that ever set any man free, the only thing that ever set any nation free, is the truth.
I wish very much, gentlemen, that candor and truth might always be the standard of politics as well as the standard of business.
America first means nothing until you translate it into what you do.