There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

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

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

We never found a real model (for our vision).

Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.