"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."

"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."

"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."

"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."

"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."

"Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom."

"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."