Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

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

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.