It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

This self-reliance, this direct dealing with the world, seemed to him, even in the height of his concern, unwomanly, a deeper injury to his own abandoned assumptions than any he had contemplated.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.