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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to read more
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society
A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society
No nation has friends only interests
No nation has friends only interests
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. read more
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count read more
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the read more
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .