Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man...

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.

We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.