“Which is worse: to take a stand and fail or to fail to stand”

“The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!”

“Fail better worse now.”

“I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.”

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”