You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

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.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.