An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The essence of leadership is to get others to do something because they think you want it done and because they know it is worth while doing -- that is what we are talking about.

Nothing creates trouble between allies so often or so easily as unnecessary talk — particularly when it belittles one of them. A family squabble is always exaggerated beyond its true importance.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace. The coming months will be fraught with fateful decisions. In this Assembly; in the capitals and military headquarters of the world; in the hearts of men every where, be they governors, or governed, may they be decisions which will lead this work out of fear and into peace. To the making of these fateful decisions, the United States pledges before you--and therefore before the world--its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma--to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.