Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.