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

"You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly."

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

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

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

"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."

"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."

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."

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

"Only Americans can hurt America."

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

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

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

"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."

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

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

"War settles nothing."

"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

"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."

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

"Pessimism never won any battle."

"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."

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

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

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."

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

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

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

"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 young state and wish it well."

"An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins."

"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 his ability to find a peaceful solution."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."

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

"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."

"The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament."

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

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

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

"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 then he is gone."

"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."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

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

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