The absence of war is not peace.

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.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?