Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?
He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.