The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.