A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

The seed of revolution is repression.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.