"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

"There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices."

"American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace."

"Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet."

"You should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know that you're always making a choice."

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought stupid, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

"A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good."