From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

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

I am without religious feeling.

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.