"If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour."

"America's greatness is built on the principles of liberty and preserved by the men and women who wear the uniform to defend it. As I have said on numerous occasions, a religious test for entering our …"

"What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom."

"In contrast to modern historiography, the ancients were much less concerned with chronological precision; exhaustive or comprehensive accounts; value-free commentary; ascribing all events to purely na…"

"Haiti is a purely Negro Republic, and offers a good illustration of what the Negro accomplishes if left to himself, even though given all the advantages of easy access to European civilization. The re…"