The motto of war is: “Let the strong survive; let the weak die.” The motto of peace is: “Let the strong help the weak to survive.”
To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.
Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.
Above all, try something.
To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.
We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.
The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.
It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.
Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.
That, in essence is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.
Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.