There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

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

The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.