Legacy
1. Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966), 43.
2. Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991), 23.
3. Ibid., 19.
4. Churchill, Youth, 189.
5. Winston Churchill, My Early Life: A Roving Commission (Macmillan Publishing Company, 1930), 62.
6. William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874–1932 (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1983), 188.
7. Ibid., 188–189.
Blessing
8. Gene Smith, Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998), 290.
Quest
9. Dale L. Morgan, Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the American West (Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 1964).
10. Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (New York: Villard Books, 1996).
Humor
11. Ian Ker, G. K. Chesterton: A Biography (Oxford University Press, 2011), xcv.
12. Dale Alquist, G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense (Ignatius Press, 2003), 11–12.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. This selection of G. K. Chesterton quotes is taken from Dale Alquist’s G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense (Ignatius Press, 2003) and Ian Ker’s G. K. Chesterton: A Biography (Oxford University Press, 2011).
16. These stories can be found in Winston Churchill, The Irrepressible Churchill, 1874–1965, Kay Halle, ed. (Cleveland: World Pub. Co., 1966), 1.
Self-Education
17. Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874–1900 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966), 322.
18. Merle Miller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman (New York: Harper and Row, 1980), 69.
19. Robert H. Ferrell, Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry Truman (New York: Harper and Row, 1980), 187.
20. Miller, Plain Speaking, 21.
21. David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), 463.
22. Ibid., 986.
Wildness
23. David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981, 2001), 90.
24. Ibid., 112.
25. Ibid.
26. Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt (New York: William Morrow, 1992), 155.
27. Ibid.
28. Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979), 298.
29. Thomas Russell, ed., Life and Work of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: L. H. Walter, 1919), 116.
Forgiveness
30. “The Lebar Brecc Homily on St. Patrick,” from Whitley Stokes, The tripartite life of Patrick: With other documents relating to that saint (1887).
31. Paragraph 16 of St. Patrick’s Confessio, from the Royal Irish Academy under a Creative Commons License, www.confessio.ie/# (accessed 10 April 2013). All quotes following here are from the Confessio.
32. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (New York: Harper and Row, 1973).
Suffering
33. Letter to John Stuart, 20 January 1841, from Roy P. Basler, Marion Dolores Pratt, and Lloyd A. Dunlap, eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953), vol. 1, 228.
34. Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon’s Informants (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 133, 475.
35. Quoted in Richard Lawrence Miller, “Lincoln’s Suicide Poem: Has It Been Found?” For the People 6, no. 1 (Spring 2004), 6.
36. Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005), 12.
Vision
37. Rudyard Kipling, Something of Myself (Cambridge University Press, 1990), 5–6.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., 17.
40. Ibid., 25.
41. William James Dawson, The Making of Manhood (New York: Thos. Crowell and Son, 1894), 101.
42. Rudyard Kipling, Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of My Own People (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916).
Humility
44. Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe, Booker T. Washington: Builder of a Civilization (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916), xii.
45. William Mountford, Euthanasy: Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life (Boston: Wm. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1848), 264.
Presence
46. For more on this fascinating episode in our nation’s history and on the role military chaplains played, see my The Faith of the American Soldier (Charisma House, 2005).