History

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.