I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

The right is more precious than peace.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

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.

Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.