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.

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

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

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.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.