An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

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

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

I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.

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