We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

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

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.