Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.

There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners with a militarism which is still stalking unchecked under the pretense of national needs and of international justice.

The praise of injudicious friends frequently fosters bad mannerisms.