Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

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

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.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.