Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.