War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.