"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."

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

"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!"

"If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone."

"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."

"I don't like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution."

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

"In war there is no substitute for victory."

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

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

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

"Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives."

"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."

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

"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing."

"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 most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

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

"We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,"

"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

"Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available."

"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. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."

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

"Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."

"In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?"

"The sergeant is the Army."

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

"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."

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

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

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

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

"Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars."

"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."

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

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

"This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like."

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