If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

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.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.