Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

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

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.