Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.
I never apologize for the United States of America. I don't care what the facts are.
I am not better or cleverer than anyone of you. But I remain undaunted, and that is why the leadership belongs to me. In darker moments than the present I did not lose courage—indeed I made still greater sacrifices.
I never feared clamor. I have never been afraid of the people, for by them I have always been sustained. And when I have all the truth, argument, fact and reason on my side, clamor nor affront, nor animosities can drive me from my purpose.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.
A government may not waver; once it has chosen its course, it must, without looking to right or left, thenceforth go forward.
Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
Referring to Richard M. Nixon:
I've never cared who I fight. And that's something I just say - 'I'll fight anyone' - it's something I've lived up to my whole career. And I'm proud of that.
I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
I'm not afraid of anything. I'm not afraid to die, if I have to.
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Whoever has a principle, must go with it to the extreme, not hold by a middle.
'They have nothing in their entire arsenal to break the spirit of one single Republican prisoner-of-war who refuses to be broken,' I thought, and that was very true. They cannot or never will break our spirit.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
People say I'm cold, that I'm impersonal on the court. Well, let me tell you, it's blood and guts out there.
What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
Sure I'm obsessed with it. And I'm absolutely certain I'm right, and nobody's going to change my mind.
In the research I did for 'Apollo,' there was never a moment's hesitation by anyone that we would do anything other than save these guys, until every resource, every ounce of energy was spent. And I'm very proud of that aspect of our culture.
We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.
My philosophy is fight anyone, anywhere. If you're going to be the best then you're going to have to beat them all, so why pick and choose?
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
