"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

"A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."

"He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before."

"As soon as there is life there is danger."

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world."