 Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. |
| We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. |
| Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. |
| Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. |
| I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. |
| I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. |
| Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. |
| The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. |
| Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. |
| The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. |
| There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. |
| The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. |
| The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. |
| No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. |
| In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down. |
| Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. |
| Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. |
| Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. |
| When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. |
| Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. |
