“On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.”

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.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.

No matter how many others are present, there is only One Being.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.