History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Once you've made peace with the fact that you're hardly ever going to work on anything that you're actually good at, the only thing that you can do is get good very fast on everything you have to do.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The congressional role in declaring war is especially important not when the United States is the victim of an attack, but when the United States is planning to wage war abroad.