To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

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