An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

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

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.