There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

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

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.