Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

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 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.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.