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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."

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

"Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."

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

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

"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."

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."

"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."

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

"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative."

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

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

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."

"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."