The reward of suffering is experience.
— Harry Truman
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart be.
— John Quincy Adams
The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousnes
—Henry Kissinger
I have written my work not as an essay to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
— Thucydides