If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.