Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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.

Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.