The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.

A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.