Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.