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

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.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

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

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

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