Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen. Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.