It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.

We must believe the things We teach our children

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action