当官从政，首先要使民风民俗敦厚；处理事务，首先要抓住问题的本质。

"The past is always with us, for it feeds the present."

Every seed planted is a promise to the future.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

如果一个国家期望在国民无知的情况下却拥有自由，那么这种期望无论在历史上，还是未来都绝不会实现。如果我们打算抵御无知和捍卫自由，每位美国人都有责任了解一件公共事务的来龙去脉。