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.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.

Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon th…

It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.