There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may st….

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued ….

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic ent….

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civiliz….

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream..

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pul….

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and….

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywh….

When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say t….

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, mer….

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual ….

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a jus….

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishn….

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another….

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must stu….

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal sep….

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of nat….

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard..

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the wo….

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opi….

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall..