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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.