But men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options as we have in the past.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now and what was reserved for the future?

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Why not invest in the future of music instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.