decision Quotes

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.