We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.