There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

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

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

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.