“America, half-brother of the world!”

“It matters not how long we live but how.”

“We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”

“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”

“America is a country in which the velocity of history is especially great, in which each succeeding decade wipes it's immediate predecessor out, a phenomenon that had moved some observers to remark that America has no history but only an eternal present.”

“Imagination is the air of mind.”

“Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.”