You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

I would prefer not to.

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

Failure is the test of greatness.