"Poor is the nation that has no..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.”

“Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.”

“What times! What manners!”

“These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.”

“A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.”

“When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.”

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.”

“There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.”

“Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.”