The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

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

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.