Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against all odds; and then produced it, sold it, and profited from it.

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.