Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Pessimism never won any battle.
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
When you appeal to force, there’s one thing you must never do – lose.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
Unless we progress, we regress.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.