Pessimism never won any battle.

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.

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

Like all successful politicians I married above myself.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.