The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.