Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.