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.

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,...