Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars

Leadership is a word and a concept that has been more argued than almost any other I know. I am not one of the desk-pounding types that likes to stick out his jaw and look...

An atheist is a guy who watches a N ”´tre Dame – SMU football game and doesn’t care who wins

We are proud because from the beginning of this nation man can walk upright no matter who he is or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend or his enemy… And...

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the...

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and...

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done

That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither...

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion

Why did we drop that god darn thing?

I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. There is a very great distinction because when you are...

The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded… in holding scientific research and discovery in respect,...

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will...

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation more than its wealth

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame — Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

Oh yes, I studied dramatics under him for 12 years.

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

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity – if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This...

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing-the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The...

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I’m not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to...