America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

Plans are worthless. Planning is priceless.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.