Famous Quotes Name D

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Our pleasures were simple-they included survival.

That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.