"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

"This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you."

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."

"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."