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.

These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

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

In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.