What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

This nation under God

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

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

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.