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.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
I don’t believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.