If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.
The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.
There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.
While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed.
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.
How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.
