It is with the book of history, and not with isolated pages, that the United States will ever wish to be identified.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-- the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.