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I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.
Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.
War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.
Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.
For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction
Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.
Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.