There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

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.

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