Quote #5040
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo...
Quote #11467
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Quote #24716
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Quote #25053
In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought...
Quote #27700
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst...
Quote #19383
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him...
Quote #5158
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I...
Quote #25731
The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the...
Quote #27016
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Quote #13346
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.