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.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.