Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.