The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.