The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.