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

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.