“It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.”
“We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It is not the question of courage. It is something constitutional, an ability to let go. It maybe nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
“A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy.”
“It might be added, too, that it takes something more than preponderance of numbers to win a battle....”