This is a war to end all wars.
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
The object of love is to serve, not to win.
The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.