Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

They lived long that have lived well.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.