Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

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

Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.

There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.