No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Liberty is its own reward.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.