But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.