Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.