When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
War settles nothing.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we havestriven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with...
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world or...
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.