Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

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

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.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.