I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

The will of the people is the best law.

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

The higher one’s level of helpfulness to others, the greater wellbeing one will experience.

Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"

May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.