Americans are not a perfect people but we are called to a perfect mission.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

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Peace above all things is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

The brave man inattentive to his duty is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

People don’t take trips, trips take people.