There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
The supreme quality for leadership is integrity.
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make – we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.
The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.
Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Only Americans can hurt America.
The sergeant is the Army.