Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.