This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.