I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

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

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house,...

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States

The sergeant is the Army.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Eisenhower Arrives for U.N.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also...

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

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

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first the most basic expression of Americanism.”

Every gun that’s made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms…is spending the genius...

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

Don’t join the book burners… Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.