You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.