Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.
America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.
We’ve learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.