Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.