It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

There is no indispensable man.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.