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

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.