No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.