I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole State, whereas the severities of the Prince injure individuals only.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.