Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Beware the military-industrial complex.

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

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

We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.