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

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.

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.

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

If you don't get it right with your first family, you can always do it again with another.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Love: a grave mental disease.

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.