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

American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Take your job seriously, but not yourself

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.