Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

...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.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.