“I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.”

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

America was born a Christian nation.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

The toughest battle is fighting with the one you are fighting for.

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

There’s a constant battle of me and healing; all of which still sits burning and intricately perplexed in ink.

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.