Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all...

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent...

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days...

I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter...

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief – and I don’t care what it is

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

We have heard much of the phrase, ”peace and friendship.” This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ”peace and friendship, in freedom.” This, I think, is America’s...

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you more than he knows.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Our pleasures were simple-they included survival.

Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed, … My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football...

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.

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.