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

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.