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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon...

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon...

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy...

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy...

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend...

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend...

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have...

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have...

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and...

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and...

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history...

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history...

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left...

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left...

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really...

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really...

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one...

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one...

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which...

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which...

War settles nothing.

War settles nothing.