It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.