As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 1 Corinthians 15:26"

Bible

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

I'd rather be right than President.

Henry Clay

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education

Thomas Jefferson

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Charles Hodge

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

H. L. Mencken

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Sir Winston Churchill

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

Christopher Hitchens

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Chief Seattle

I've crashed my car three times.

Billy Joel