"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

"No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections."

"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."

"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States."

"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."