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.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.