To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.