"Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is."

"Life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."