There are some gentlemen who are under the delusion that the power of a nation comes from the top.
I knew that all a university could do if it knew its business was to interpret the moral forces of the world.
I am for the time being the spokesman of such people, gentlemen.
Business is all right so long as it is not sordid, and it cannot be sordid if it is shot through with ideals.
The only thing that ever set any man free, the only thing that ever set any nation free, is the truth.
America is at a point, gentlemen, where it is more than ever necessary that she should understand her own ideals not onl...
It is one thing to entertain fine principles and another thing to make them work.
I am immensely interested in fighting for the things that I believe in.
I have not come here to make an extended address.
I have such an inveterate confidence in the ultimate triumph of the truth.
At whatever cost America should be just to other peoples and treat other peoples as she demands that they should treat h...
I believe most profoundly in the duty of every American to exalt the national consciousness by purifying his own motives...
You want a fair field and no favor.
America first means nothing until you translate it into what you do.
I wish very much, gentlemen, that candor and truth might always be the standard of politics as well as the standard of b...
I have been trying to explain to you what we are getting prepared for.
The Union was saved by the processes of the Civil War.
We know that the spirit of America is invincible and that no man can abate its power.
