No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

There is no such man as a one-person hero.

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

I'm supposed to be a normal, sane type person, but after you go through war and such, you become superstitious. I am convinced that somebody is looking after me.

Today’s amateurs are tomorrow’s champions.

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

He has no worse enemy than himself.

Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.