A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.