The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.