Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one's beloved extended community.

If terrorism has no religion then intolerance has no country either

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.