"With nations as with individuals our interests..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.”

“We might have been a free and great people together.”

“Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.”

“There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.”

“MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.”

“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”

“To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.”

“By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing up plans, handling affairs or thinking over problems, we must proceed from the fact that China has a population of 600 million people, and we must never forget this fact.”

“We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.”