Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.