If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.