Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.