No man can be just who is not free.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

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

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

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