“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.”

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.

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.

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.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.

I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]

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

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

When you do something you love with passion and perseverance, you are already a success. Even if you never hit the big time, who cares?

Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.

And even as you’re working to ensure the health of your army, you must remember to take care of your own.

Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.

Maybe if you didn’t care, you couldn’t be hurt.

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.

Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a display of that care, not to let their legs be seen, is as childish as immodest.