The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

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

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.