“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”

“The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.”

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ”

“2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.”

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope”

“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”