This U.S. President said, “There must be, there shall be the commanding voice of a conscious civilization against armed warfare.”

“Our Government springs from and was made for the people —not the people for the Government. To them it owes allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.”

“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best of laws, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”

“Power always thinks…that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.”

“But I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.”

“It is not strange . . . to mistake change for progress.”

“You can’t divorce religious belief from public service.”

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”

“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.”