All Sayings

The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

I am not a consensus politician. I am a conviction politician.

I've often wondered how we'd stand up to an alien invasion. And then I've thought that if there was an alien threat, that would unite us all.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

When I am in the White House, I am the President; when I am in the country, I am a farmer.

I would rather lose in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

What is easiest is best in calculation.

There are four chief obstacles to grasping truth: authority, habit, popular opinion, and the concealment of ignorance.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

I am a soldier, and I will die as a soldier.

In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.