When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense

Patriots don't let their nation default.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.