For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

We cannot learn men from books.