The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.