An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself