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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.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Pessimism never won any battle.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual on military leadership -Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Pessimism never won any battle.

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.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.