Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

I didn't choose to be an actress

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes.