Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

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

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.