What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.