Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.