Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.