“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”

“Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.”

“Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”

“Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.”

“[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.”

“The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”