There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.