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The price of greatness is responsibility.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
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