"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve." --Benjamin Franklin
"It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world." --Theodore Roosevelt
"The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it." --John Stuart Mill
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." --Henry Clay
I think I'm liking the Teddy Roosevelt quote.