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.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.