David R. Smith

Just days before Christmas in 1987, a passenger ferry named the Doña Paz set sail from Leyte Island in the Philippines enroute to Manila, the capital. The Japanese-built ship could …

“My hope is that when I die, all of Hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.”

“As a matter of fact, it may be categorically stated that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference.”

Douglas Bader was born in 1910 just as humanity was learning to take flight. The newly discovered frontier beckoned to the brilliant and rambunctious Englishman, so as soon as he …

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of …

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”

“A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very, very dangerous man who has that under voluntary control.”

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

“A true warrior fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”