We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.