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.

Believe and you're halfway there.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives. I have hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle. And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb. But when history says that my term of office saw the begining of the Cold War, it will also say that in those eight years we have set the course that can win it.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

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

It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.