Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.