Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.