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.

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 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.

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.

If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.

Making something is HardMaking something you don't even CARE ABOUT isEVEN HARDER .

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

Even though Kate had only known Hale for a little more than two years, she had seen him in a lot of situations.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.

Sometimes all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.