There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.