America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

This is history written in lightning.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

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