Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.