America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

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

Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

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.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

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.