There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

A living thing is born.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.