When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.