The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple - this single - this exclusive goal.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.