While Soldiers Can Stand And Fight.i Can

Others Are Writing My Biography, And Let It Rest As They Elect To Make It. I Have Lived My Life, Well And Ill, Always Less Well Than I Wanted It To Be But It Is, As It Is, And As It Has Been; So Small A Thing, To Have Had So Much About It!

While Soldiers Can Stand And Fight.i Can Fight And Feed Them

It Irritates Me To Be Told How Things Have Always Been Done. I Defy The Tyranny Of Precedent. I Cannot Afford The Luxury Of A Closed Mind.

The Door That Nobody Else Will Go In At, Seems Always To Swing Open Widely For Me.

The Patriot Blood Of My Father Was Warm In My Veins.