General Propositions Do Not Decide Concrete Cases.

History Has To Be Rewritten Because History Is The Selection Of Those Threads Of Causes Or Antecedents That We Are Interested In.

Our Dead Brothers And Sisters Still Live For Us And Bid Us Think Of Life, Not Death-of Life To Which In Their Youth They Lent The Passion And Glory Of Spring. As I Listen, The Great Chorus Of Life And Joy Begins Again, And Amid The Awful Orchestra Of Seen And Unseen Powers And Destinies Of Good And Evil, Our Trumpets Sound Once More A Note Of Daring, Hope, And Will.

If I Had A Formula For Bypassing Trouble, I Wouldn't Pass It Around. Wouldn't Be Doing Anybody A Favor. Trouble Creates A Capacity To Handle It. I Don't Say Embrace Trouble. That's As Bad As Treating It As An Enemy. But I Do Say, Meet It As A Friend, For You'll See A Lot Of It And Had Better Be On Speaking Terms With It.

A Great Man Represents A Great Ganglion In The Nerves Of Society, Or To Vary The Figure, A Strategic Point In The Campaign Of History, And Part Of His Greatness Consists In His Being There.

Any Tax Is A Discouragement And Therefore A Regulation So Far As It Goes.