When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth model, on the other hand, is in a deep crisis.
I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.
I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.
