It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

A living thing is born.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.