Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.