The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it

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.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.