The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.