"I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea."

"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."

"If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it."

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

"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"

"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."

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

"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 be ready to speak at the passing of the hat."

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

"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."

"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."

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

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."

"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

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

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

"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."

"Only Americans can hurt America."

"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 with disloyal subversion."

"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."