"I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road."
"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."
"As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase."
"Plans are nothing. Planning is everything."
"The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
"Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use."
"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
"Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss."
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
"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."
"That was and still is the great disaster of my life; that lovely, lovely little boy."
"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."
"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 have one yardstick by which I test every major problem, and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
"The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom."
"Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know."