We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.
If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.
Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.
Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro’s government go on.
As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
The winning of war – the effectiveness in such things – is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.
Public opinion wins wars.
No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.