Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.