'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which these other forms of protection can be soundly built. Thus, the individual's own work, his planning and his thrift will bring him a higher standard of living upon his retirement, or his family a higher standard of living in the event of his death, than would otherwise be the case. Hence the system both encourages thrift and self-reliance, and helps to prevent destitution in our national life.

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.