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.

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

Only peace between equals can last.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

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.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.