We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

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.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.