History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.