“Great minds can accomplish great things in life.”

“The greatness of a nation is not the military power to enforce its will upon others, but rather its capacity to inspire high ideals and a humanizing spirit.”

“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.”

“In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one's native boots were full of holes, and at the next, perhaps, one wondered how long one would be alive to wear them.”

“We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.”

“A book without words is a mind without thought.”

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”