There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.