Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

God created men to test the souls of women.