War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.

Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.

If you have enough fantasies you're ready in the event that something happens.

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.

Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

People ask me if I would shoot and kill people, and I don't think I would.

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage