"We meet to-day, representing the people of this continent, from the Dominion of Canada in the north, to Chile and the…"

"By sheer force of moral purpose, by clarity of perception, by mastery of detail and benign manipulation of men, he ha…"

"What is the lesson to us to-day? Are we to go the way of the older civilizations? The immense increase in the area of…"

"The whole world is bound together as never before; the bonds are sometimes those of hatred rather than love, but they…"

"In many respects there is a complete lack of analogy between the civilization of to-day and the only other civilizati…"

"Hitherto every civilization that has arisen has been able to develop only a comparatively few activities; that is, it…"

"In new and wild communities where there is violence, an honest man must protect himself; and until other means of sec…"

"The people of the United States suffer from periodical financial panics to a degree substantially unknown to the othe…"

"Throughout their early stages the movements of civilization—for, properly speaking, there was no one movement—were ve…"

"When, in the slow procession of the ages, man was developed on this planet, the change worked by his appearance was a…"