Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

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.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.