No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.