...to make the world safe for democracy.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.