Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.