The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.