It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

...to make the world safe for democracy.