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

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

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

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.