Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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 do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.