Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.