The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.

I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.