One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth-right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.
Whenever we criticize ourselves, we compound the issue.
When you are famous, you never can be sure why somebody's being nice. You just have to develop a very good sixth sense. I call it my bullshit detector.
We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.