The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.

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

But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.

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.

Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

"In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."