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, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers,

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

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

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

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

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.