No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.