“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.”

Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Pessimism never won any battle.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Only Americans can hurt America.

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

How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks therein his development, the Man that was and is and shall be, for whom the hour will never strike.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man’s true wealth.

Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.