Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

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

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.