"America is the only place where man..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.”

“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”

“I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me”

“If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price.”

“On behalf of the American people, just let me say that we are proud to count Greece as one of our closest allies and one of our greatest friends.”

“For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.”

“Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.”

“The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.”

“Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?”