"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."

"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 of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers,"

"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs"

"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."

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

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

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."

"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past."

"I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy"

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

"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

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

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

"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."

"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words."

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog"

"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character."

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

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

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

"The sergeant is the Army."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth"

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

"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."

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

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

"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"