Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

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

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.