The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.

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

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.