When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.
Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.