An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Only Americans can hurt America.
Pessimism never won any battle.
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in ar...
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.
Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.