Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
I have always been afraid of banks.
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
To the victors belong the spoils.
