In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local pol...
Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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.
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.
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...
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.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do 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.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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.
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...
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent w...
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.