Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.