At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.