I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.