"The destiny of any nation at any..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.”

“If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.”

“You are, when all is done-just what you are.”

“It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is to see the young people who make up the membership of the Federalist Society. Earnest, intelligent, and unpretentious, these are the young men and women of whom any nation and any age could be proud.”

“To a young heart everything is fun.”

“And writers say, as the most forward budIs eaten by the canker ere it blow,Even so by love the young and tender witIs turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,Losing his verdure even in the prime,And all the fair effects of future hopes.”

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.”

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

“We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.”