What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.

Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.