Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - to risk his life - in a great cause

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

If I must choose between peace and righteousness, I choose righteousness

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.