“You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders”

“if Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code”

“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.”

“How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?”

“No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”

“It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion .... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but grows with the growth and is altered with the change of the nation's needs and purposes.”