It must be a peace without victory

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.