We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

Failures, mistakes, and difficulties are just locations on your journey through life. They have nothing to do with who you are.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.

The path that we are headed on economically in America is one that leads to total ruination of the American system.

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.