I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

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

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.