Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.