This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him.

The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.