If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.