Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea.

Don't join the book burners!

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.