My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. 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 which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.