I Think I Was Always Subconsciously Driven

The Enduring Realization That When A Great Challenge Comes, The Most Ordinary People Can Show That They Value Something More Than They Value Their Own Lives. When The Last Of The Veterans Had Gone, And The Sorrows And Bitterness Which The War Created Had At Last Worn Away, This Memory Remained.

Early Youth Is A Baffling Time

A Singular Fact About Modern War Is That It Takes Charge. Once Begun It Has To Be Carried To Its Conclusion, And Carrying It There Sets In Motion Events That May Be Beyond Men's Control. Doing What Has To Be Done To Win, Men Perform Acts That Alter The Very Soil In Which Society's Roots Are Nourished.

Abraham Lincoln Was Not All Brooding And Melancholy And Patient Understanding. There Was A Hard Core In Him, And Plenty Of Toughness. He Could Recognize A Revolutionary Situation When He Saw One, And He Could Act Fast And Ruthlessly To Meet It.

Our American Heritage Is Greater Than Any One Of Us. It Can Express Itself In Very Homely Truths; In The End It Can Lift Up Our Eyes Beyond The Glow In The Sunset Skies.