We are at liberty to act without waiting for other nations to act.
This is the field of the single unconquerable force that there is in the world, and when the world learns, as it will learn, that America ha...
Every drop of blood that I have in me gets up and shouts when I think of the opportunity that America has.
Do you know of any business or undertaking in which you can get the advantage without assuming the responsibility?
Nothing has impressed me more, or impressed me more painfully, than the degree in which the rest of the world trusts us and looks to us.
The world will be turned back to cynicism if America goes back on it.
I ask you even as a business proposition whether it is more useful to trade with a cynic or with an optimist.
The real difficulty in all political reform is to know whether you can translate your theories into facts or not.
I entirely concur in Senator Lodge's conclusion, and I hope I shall have his cooperation in bringing about the desired result.
The only thing that lifts the world is hope.
All of that is absolutely antidemocratic in its influence.