A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.