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 order.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

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.

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 with disloyal subversion.