History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.