From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

Your rights end where my nose begins.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.