America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.