A battle lost or won is easily described understood and appreciated but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection as well as observation to appreciate it.

It does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

All great achievements require time.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test which I would not have been able to do.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers always on trial for their political lives always required to court their restless constituents.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard fast and specific decision.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing.