“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”—Dean Acheson
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”—Henry Adams
“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit”—Henry Adams
“Fiat Justitia, Pereat Coelum (Let justice be done, though heaven fall.) My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.”—John Quincy Adams
“It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed…Great necessities call out great virtues.”—Abigail Adams