A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.