Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.