We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, 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.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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