...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

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

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

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

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.