We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.