I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation including the local attitudes back to Washington to the government there.
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
When you play play hard when you work don't play at all.
I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average...
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was...
Look into the heavens and say, “It’s my turn to make history.