I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.