We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.