Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
He was a man, he always performed his promises.
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
There is a correlation between evil. There is a primary evil that comes directly from the Devil. Even though all evil stems from the Devil, the Devil sometimes interacts with people in the physical world and the spiritual world and sometimes there's just plain evil that people do to one another. And I've seen plenty of that over the course of 20 years.
Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.
When all is said and done, the unselfish acts of what we have done without asking for anything in return, will have said it all.