We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.