They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.