All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

I believe that we are going to get along very well with him [Josef Stalin] and the Russian people - very well indeed.