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

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

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