In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.