“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked”

“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent”

“Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand”

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free”

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict”

“A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it”