“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
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.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
