"A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French"

"I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant."

"While we have no reason to expect that our position in the universe is special in every way, we would be equally misled were we to assume that it could not be special in any way."

"America has never forgotten — and never will forget — the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path — the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How …"

"What the French wanted above all else from the peace settlement was a guarantee of their security, and for reasons difficult now to comprehend their chief allies, Great Britain and the United States, …"