This is the last of earth! I am content.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.