254  Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

873  America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

268  All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

901  Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

897  Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.