America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.