“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.”

Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.

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.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me.

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world’s population.

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.