A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.