No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.

... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.