Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Liberty is its own reward.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.