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.'

And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.