You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.

The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.

He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Men make history, not the other way around.

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward.