Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.
We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history’s high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.
America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.