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

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

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.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.