The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

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

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.