The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...