The real safeguard of democracy is education.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.