The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

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.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

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.

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.