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

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.