There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Fulfillment in life is loving a good woman and killing a bad man.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.