"Communists sentenced my father's father to ten years hard labor for having a small American flag in his possession (b…"

"America represented to my father, as Lincoln put it, "the last, best hope of earth." I would like to be able to say t…"

"[I]n America human beings could prove to the world that they have the capacity to govern themselves. I came to unders…"

"[T]he United States of America, is not only the most powerful and the most prosperous country on earth, but the most …"

"It is never easy to give honor where great honor is due."

"The United States started out in 1776 throwing off the accident and force that ruled by hereditary right in the old w…"

"• Let the future historian, if he will, add beauty of expression and the charm of polished diction to this plain, unp…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"