We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

'If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.