I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

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

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

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.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.