"A day will come when a cannon..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.”

“I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.”

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."”

“There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'.”

“I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence”

“When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?”

“There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."”

“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”

“The future is plump with promise.”