I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

The object of love is to serve, not to win

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.