Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Continued dependence on relief inducers a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.