Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.
I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now hold your ground and later win a little more.
. . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know?There is time, she said, but the sooner you know, the sooner you...
The way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's...
How many time have I talked with people who have ridden the trails where I have ridden, yet had seen nothing? They passed over the land just to get over it, not to live with it and see it, feel it. Th...
Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.
Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
There can be no living together without understanding, and understanding means compromise. Compromise is not a dirty word, it is the cornerstone of civilization, just as politics is the art of making...
Difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it’s a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one’s own actions.
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your opportunities didn't come knocking around you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.
A forest is a living thing like a human body...each part dependent on all the other parts. A forest needs its birds, its beaver...all its animals and plants. The forest gives shelter to the birds, but...
A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.
After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
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