The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

...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.

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been