“If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charl...” — Henry Cabot Lodge Quote

“If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.”

“Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?”

“Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.”

“Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.”

“By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So early on, I heard of Charles Darwin. I guess, you know, he was the big hero. And, you know, you understand life as it now exists through evolution.”

“Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.”