What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

Success always demands a greater effort.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.