If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

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