On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
A hungry man is not a free man.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Making peace is harder than making war.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
