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.

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 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.

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.

How clumsily we love this world:looking into that vast darkness, waiting for the telescopeto send down unseen colors of light.

Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

You have to be tough.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.