Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.
The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
You never know what’s hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.
For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.
Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word.
The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.
There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than having soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their week's exercise.
If you face a man’s job, find a woman!