"To speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The beauty of the unknown is that wisdom is knowing when to speak and when to listen."

"A resilient spirit knows that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"

"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."

"The paradox of freedom is that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."

"The paradox of freedom is that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."