People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

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.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.