...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.