... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. So we want to be strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our education, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.