Great Throughts Treasury

"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."

"You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world."

"You have laid upon me this double obligation: "we are relying upon you, Mr. President, to keep us out of war, but we are relying upon you, Mr. President, to keep the honor of the nation unstained.""

"You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write."

"You must act in your friend’s interest whether it pleases him or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win."

"You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders"