"We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind."

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."

"I have seen too much of war to ever want to see it again."