Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.