It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put first things first...one of the main essentials which lies at the very beginning of civilization is that of security.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.