The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.