In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

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.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.