Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.