And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.