In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and the dignity of all people, the futility and stupidity of war, its destructiveness of life and its degradation of human values.

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.