"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."

"Oh, that lovely title, ex - president."

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

"We merely want to live in peace with all the world to trade with them to commune with them to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war."

"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."

"Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong."

"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."