No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.

We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.