Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.