Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world.

Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead.

Keeping her in her roots of greenness.

It is not good that the man should be alone.

This is the warfare of the future. America's dominance in this arena [cybersecurity] must be unquestioned.

I like going to the gym every day.

I wanted to show that your health is more important than your hair.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

But even if you should betray me, I will forgive you.