I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

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.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.