The Union was saved by the processes of the Civil War.
I have been trying to explain to you what we are getting prepared for.
There is nothing that the United States wants for itself that any other nation has.
It is clear that nations must in the future be governed by the same high code of honor that we demand of individuals.
The interests of all nations are our own also.
We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.
God grant that the dawn of that day of frank dealing and of settled peace, concord, and coöperation may be near at hand!
The peace of the world must henceforth depend upon a new and more wholesome diplomacy.
We believe these fundamental things: First, that every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they sha...
There are two reasons why the chief wish of America is for peace.
I felt constantly a personal detachment from the Presidency; that one thing that I resented when I was not performing th...
The shortest road to a boy's moral sense is through his cuticle.
I am both glad and sorry to be here; glad because I am always happy to be with you, and know and like so many of you, an...
If I want to know how many people live in a small town all I have to do is to go there and they at once line up to be co...
I love the fellows that come into my office sometimes and say, 'Mr. President, I am an American.'
I have a profound intellectual contempt for men who can not see the signs of the times.
Sometimes, when I am most beset, I seriously think of renting a pair of whiskers or of doing something else that will fu...
One of the leading faults of you gentlemen of the press is your inordinate desire to hear other men talk, to draw them o...