The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)