The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.