Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

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

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.