Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.