There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.

It must be a peace without victory

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.