We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.