The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

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

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.