A statesman is a politician who's been dead for ten or fifteen years.
America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.
Hysteria impels people to destroy the very thing they are struggling to preserve.
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 do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it's hell.
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
It is not enough to yearn for peace. We must work, and if necessary, fight for it.
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating—and when to stop working.
No man can get rich in politics unless he's a crook.
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens....
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.
Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
