As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
Thank God I have done my duty.
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.
I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.
Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
I think America has a bad rap right now. . . and hopefully Obama will change that.