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For the fourth time the officer elected by the people and ordained by the Constitution to fill a vacancy so created is called to assume the Executive chair.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

My dear Laelius and Scipio, we must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains.

Now, old age is as it were the playing out of the drama, the full fatigue of which we should shun, especially when we also feel that we have had more than enough of it.

In such cases friendships should be allowed to die out gradually by an intermission of intercourse.

I shall never be persuaded that marriage has a charm to raise love out of nothing, much less out of dislike

This trial comes at a moment when man's power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages.

The Revolution was made to preserve our ancient indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient constitution of government which is our only security for law and liberty.

you would wonder at seeing how possible it is to live as secludedly in the midst of a multitude as in the centre of solitude

In my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist.

One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

The robbers of time are the past and the future.

Let it be impressed upon all hearts that, beautiful as our fabric is, no earthly power or wisdom could ever reunite its broken fragments.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things.

But I did not dream that that interview would be the door through which I should pass from darkness into light, from isolation to friendship, companionship, knowledge, love.

I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon.

depend upon it, you will love your native hills the better for being separated from them

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity

The collisions of party spirit which originate in speculative opinions or in different views of administrative policy are in their nature transitory.

The result was that I gradually, but completely, emerged from my habitual depression, and was never again subject to it.