It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.

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.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.