I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of ….

Our ideals resemble the stars, which illumintate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, t….

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the….

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right..

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as ….

When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the bann….

We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit..

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'.

Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man in the desert of waters, you choose them as y….

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them..

Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too..

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at….

I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfi….

I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our chara….