Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

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

Hitler liked to spend a lot of special time with goats.

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

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to...

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

The uninspected deteriorates

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be...

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head-that’s assault, not leadership.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

I don’t attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use....

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Remember that it is not by a tyrant’s words, but only by his deeds that we can know him

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

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 problems to manageable proportions

‘Worry’ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

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...