The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.