Desirable Quotes

Each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs - balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage - balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between action of the moment and the national welfare of the future.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.