The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.