Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

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