Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

No guts, no glory.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.