When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.

I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.

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.

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.

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores.