"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Spend and be spent."

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice."

"PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it."

"The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not."

"The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset."

"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time."

"What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty."

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."