This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

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

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.