I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

The absence of war is not peace.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others