America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
“I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.”
“I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.”