Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.