said, “The paths to God are manifold. - James A. Michener

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

Of all the men who were photographed that day, the chief’s life had come closest to the American ideal, closest in observing the principles on which this nation had been founded. He was immeasurably greater than Chester Arthur, the hack politician from New York, incomparably finer than Robert Lincoln, a niggardly man of no stature who inherited from his father only his name, and a better warrior, considering his troops and ordnance, than Phil Sheridan. His only close competitor was Senator Vest, who shared with him a love of land and a joy in seeing it used constructively.

Patriotism is not a matter of the skin’s color. It is a matter of the heart.