“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”

“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”

“In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.”

“Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.”

“I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality.”

“You can never know the odds. If you don't play, you'll never win”

“Dad reckoned there was a rational explanation for everything, even things that made no sense at all. UFOs, ghosts, God - they're just the names people came up with for stuff they haven't worked out yet.”