Let us make it evident that we intend to do justice. Then let us make it equally evident that we will not tolerate injustice being done us in return. Let us further make it evident that we use no words which we are not which prepared to back up with deeds, and that while our speech is always moderate, we are ready and willing to make it good. Such an attitude will be the surest possible guarantee of that self-respecting peace, the attainment of which is and must ever be the prime aim of a self-governing people.

Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that we do not mean, and of acting without hesitation up to whatever we say.…

We are passing through a period of great commercial prosperity, and such a period is as sure as adversity itself to bring mutterings of discontent. At a time w…

The vast individual and corporate fortunes, the vast combinations of capital which have marked the development of our industrial system, create new conditions,…

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

There is no path to peace except as the will of peoples may open to it. The way of peace is through agreement, not through force. The question then is not of a…

I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodsh…