Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.

With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.