The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

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

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.