Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.

If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.