Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Change is like fire- if uncontrolled, it will consume us.

I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again--and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.