"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."

"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."

"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

"Power is the great aphrodisiac."

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."

"A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized."

"The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."