We call every sort of man who has displayed unusual powers 'great'; we call some bad men 'great'; but we reserve the word 'honorable' for those who are great, but spend their great...
Our peers are the men who have spent their great energies outside the narrow circle of their own self-interest.
I should feel that I was guilty of an unpardonable omission if I did not go out and tell my fellow countrymen that new circumstances have ar...
I would be ashamed of the passion of fear.
The facts of the world are such that it is my duty to counsel my fellow citizens that preparation for national defense can not any longer be...
The old cry for the defense of your hearth and home does not seem to me a very handsome appeal.
I am sure we have never encouraged in America the spirit of militarism, and we shall never have militarism in the United States.
If these gentlemen could have sat with me reading the dispatches and handling the questions which arise every hour of the twenty-four, they ...
The American plan is a great body of citizens who are ready to rally to the national defense and adequately serve the national defense when ...
The flag stands for something for which we are all trustees, the great part that America is to play in the world.
No nation should waste its youth like that.