Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

What do you take me for, an idiot?

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)