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

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.