The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

Pessimism never won any battle.

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

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

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.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)