War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.