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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it
To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.
Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.
In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!
Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.
Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.
The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.
...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.
We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.
In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.
We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.