Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

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

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.