I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

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.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.