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.

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.

From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.