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.

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

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

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

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.