Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.