“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”
“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.”
“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.”
“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
“Pessimism never won any battle.”
“Only Americans can hurt America.”
“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”
“There is no victory at bargain basement prices.”
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
“The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.”
“Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.”
“The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.”
“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”
“I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.”
“Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”
“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.”
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”
“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”