For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories... And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

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

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.