A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

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

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

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