America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest...

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else all go down, as one people.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The...object of government is "to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves."

Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.