“They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.”

Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

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.

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.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

I used to blame everything outside of me for my lack of progress until I found that my problem was inside.

A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse.

Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

You’ll lose it, if you talk about it.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.