They lived long that have lived well.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

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

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.