Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

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 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.

At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely.

Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

Being able to meet fans who look up to me and letting me know they have been inspired by me in some way is so humbling.

There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it.

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture, traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.

Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today.