I never considered myself a trainer, I considered myself a teacher.
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.
The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.
The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.
They write them long because they can't write them short.
The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.