“I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.”

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty.