America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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.
There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.... Joining hands with them, the men of America gave the greatest of all gifts - the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
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.
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
America was born a Christian nation,
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.
I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.