Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

"Racist" is a confusing word, and it should be clarified. Men have no special rights simply because they belong to one race or another. When you say "men," you have already imbued them with all their rights.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.