I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

Pessimism never won any battle.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himself-and history honors him for this human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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