每个国家的历史始于一个人的心灵中。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

当天赋不努力时，勤奋会击败天赋。

并不存在一个自由美国和一个保守美国的区别 - 只有团结的美利坚合众国。