History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Freedom is never free.