Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

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

We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.