Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism..

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disapp….

What kind of nation we will be, what kind of world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by ou….

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while….

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of….

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it..

When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of….

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The blo….

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy..

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning..

If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting Ame….

Solutions are not the answer..

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown ….

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at ….

Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble..

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them back..

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not l….

Those who hate us only win if we hate them back.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government ….

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of ….

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has ….