Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.