Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

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

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

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?

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.