Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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.