If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

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

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)