I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.