It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

A case for Red River's importance to our military could have never been made had it not been for all of those employees that will never be named in the papers or seen on TV,

I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency.