Astronauts are very professional and when they’re preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?

I was actually disappointed because I thought the mistakes I made is that people misinterpret my passion for anger.

The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent’s strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.