Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.