"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."

"He who seeks peace must remember that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for."

"Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever."

"In the depths of adversity, a mind at peace can weather any storm."