Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.