They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

They lived long that have lived well.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.