One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.