America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.