“The men of Texas deserved much credit, but more was due the women. Armed men facing a foe could not but be brave; but the women, with their little children around them, without means of defense or power to resist, faced danger and death with unflinching courage.”
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“We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.”
“There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.”
“Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.”
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”
“All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.”
“Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”
“Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.”
“Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice”
“I'm the type of person where, A., I look at things as challenges, I like challenges and, B., I truly believe that you determine your own destiny.”
“We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?”
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
“I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.”
“When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.”
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.”
“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
“Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were 'born' free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature.”
“Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.”
“The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.”