Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

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

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.