Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

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.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

My best training came from my father.