All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.