Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Well done is better than well said.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.