The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.