Andrew Taylor Still

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.