Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

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 supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.