A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

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