Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

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.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

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.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.