No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.