[We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will find this nature and these needs set f… - Theodore Roosevelt

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting; and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words his position becomes absolutely contemptible. So it is with the nation. It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification, and, above all, in loose-tongued denunciation of other peoples. Whenever on any point we come in contact with a foreign power, I hope that we shall always strive to speak courteously and respectfully of that foreign power.

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.