[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.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

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.

Wait for that wisest of all counselores, Time.