It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.