Pomes All Sizes (1992)
2000s, 2005, Second Inaugural Address (January 2005)
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
Context: So it is that the laws most binding us as a people are laws of the spirit—proclaimed in church and synagogue and mosque. These are the laws that truly declare the eternal equality of all men, of all races, before the man-made laws of our land. And we are profoundly aware that—in the world—we can claim the trust of hundreds of millions of people, across Africa and Asia—only as we ourselves hold high the banner of justice for all.
1970s, First Presidential address (1974)
Context: My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.
As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate.
“He laughs best who laughs last.”
The Country House, Act II, sc. v (1706)
“Men of all lands and climes are brothers.”
Genesis II, 7 (p. 7)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8
Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation (1753)
“The world is not our imagination but our nightmare, full of inconceivable surprises.”
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
“Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”
Preface to The Norman Conquests (New York: Grove Press, [1975] 1988) p. 11.
