The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
War settles nothing.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Only Americans can hurt America.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
