Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.