The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.