`I don’t care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.’

`People talk peace. But men give their life’s work to war. It won’t stop ’til there is as much brains and scientific study put to aid peace as there is to promote war.’

`Take diplomacy out of a war and the thing would fall flat in a week.’

`You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.’

`There is no income tax in Russia. But there’s no income.’

`Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.’

`No man is great if he thinks he is.’

`No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.’

`We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.’