We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.