We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

Nothing is won without enthusiasm.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.