US Presidency
1914

A man who has made conquest of his fellow men for his own gain may display such genius in war, such uncommon qualities of organization and leadership that we may call him great, but there is a word which we reserve for men of another kind and about which we are very careful; that is the word noble. We never call a man noble who serves only himself; and if you will look about through all the nations of the world upon the statues that men have erected, upon the inscribed tablets where they have wished to keep alive the memory of the citizens whom they desire most to honor, you will find that almost without exception they have erected the statue to those who had a splendid surplus of energy and devotion to spend upon their fellow men. Nobility exists in America without patent.