War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.