Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.