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.

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

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

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

Man is not free unless government is limited.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

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.

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...

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Never take counsel of your fears.

War settles nothing.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion… in private self-defense.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

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

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

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for “the mess we’re in.”

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

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.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

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

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

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

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....

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

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.

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...