The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn’t be an expert anymore.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.
The ‘C’ students run the world.
The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
A President cannot always be popular.
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.