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

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

We never found a real model (for our vision).

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.