Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.