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.
He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?