“We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.”

It is upon us whether we will it or not.

All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree

It is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?

Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

I’ve never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people.

The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you’ve…um…entertained his wife.

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.