Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

Of all that is written I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

And let me tell you you boys of America that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man a good citizen and a good son brother or father than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret since I've never seen any intelligent military person nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man sense imagination intellect love desire instinct blood and spirit together.