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

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

Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.