"It is necessary, my fellow citizens, that I should ask you this question, because I do not know how long the mere word and insistence of your Government will prevail to maintain your honor and the dig..."
"You have certainly given me a most royal welcome to Kansas City, and I esteem it a very great privilege to deliver the message which I have come to deliver to this great throng of intelligent people."
"The impulses of government in this country do not come from the rulers, they come from the people."
"One can not pay the price of self-respect."
"America does not constitute the world."
"I have not grudged a single burden that has been thrown upon me with that end in view."
"Why, no voice has ever come to any public man more audibly, more unmistakably, than the voice of this great people has come to me."
"We are not theorists in this matter."
"I believe that you will credit the statement that no man is in a better position to know that than I am."
"We are counting upon you to maintain unsullied and unquestioned the honor and integrity of the United States;"
"America has a character as distinct as the character of any individual amongst us."
"We are counting upon you to keep this country out of war."
"I know that whenever the test comes every man's heart will be first for America."
"The Government of the United States is Hot going to be imposed upon by anybody."
"Peace lies in the hearts of great industrial and agricultural populations."
"I admire the hopeful confidence of those of our fellow citizens who believe that American opinion can stop it, but, being somewhat older than some of them, and having run through a rather wide gamut o..."
"But we are not dealing with people; we are dealing with Governments."
"The Constitution of the United States explicitly lays upon the President the duty of reporting at the beginning of each annual session of Congress to the representatives of the people concerning the s..."
