There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.