The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.