It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.