Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

As nice an offer as that was, I'm afraid I'm not interested.""I see the job as your only chance for survival.

I felt the human disease that is ignorance suddenly leave my body. Just like that. Like a hot, desperate piss after a long car ride.

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.