If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.