It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. - Theodore Roosevelt

all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did — whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.

Great thought speak only to the thoughtful mind ,but great actions speak to all mankind.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French, Americans. Scandanvian-Americans, Italian-Americans, [African-Americans,] each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The only [one] who is a good American is the [one] who is an American and nothing else.