Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

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

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.