We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

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

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

The object of love is to serve, not to win

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.