Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.