Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.