One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

A living thing is born.

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.