I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

There is no indispensable man.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

The object of love is to serve, not to win

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.