The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

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

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

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

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.