America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.