If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

Necessity does not submit to debate.

Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not his lips only, follow me.

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

A bold onset is half the battle.

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

Man created God, not God, man

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

Her grandparents’ house was an old crammed up space just like all the others there, but to Sofia it had the luxuries of a palace and the reverence of a church.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.