In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.