Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot..

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….

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….

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….

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

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 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 ….

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

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

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….

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..

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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