Why don’t you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession – to defend it against every thrust from within or without.
Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.
War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.
Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.
It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.
And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.
By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.
If I didn’t have air supremacy, I wouldn’t be here.
Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice.
Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don’t swallow it.
There is no such thing as human superiority.
Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.
Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.