“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.”

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.

Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.

Thinking is my fighting.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

Reality does not go away when it is ignored.

The tongue like a sharp knife. Kills without drawing blood.