Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

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

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

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.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.