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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

An Administration would be unworthy of confidence at home or respect abroad should it cease to be influenced by the conviction that no apparent advantage can be purchased at a price so dear as that of national wrong or dishonor.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically. This is the business of the Europeans.

Great nations like great men must keep their word.

It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself.

Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

The animosities of elections should have no place in our Government, for government must concern itself alone with the common weal.

Next in importance to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or even the suspicion of corruption.

Our diplomacy should be direct and frank, neither seeking to obtain more nor accepting less than is our due.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

I will give my all in your service thinking not of power, but of possibilities.

We will lead not merely by the example of our power but by the power of our example.

Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?

ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

The most respectful deference is due to doubts originating in pure patriotism and sustained by venerated authority.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

In all public expenditures the most rigid economy should be resorted to, and, as one of its results, a public debt in time of peace be sedulously avoided.

In regard to foreign nations, the groundwork of my policy will be justice on our part to all, submitting to injustice from none.

In this the Endowments of Men are so employed, that the Friend and the Governor are united in one, and oppressive Customs come to an End.