"Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot."

"It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war."

"The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify."

"The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate."

"I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large."

"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head."

"Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others."

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."