It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Men make history, not the other way around.

For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.

I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.