I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.