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 w...
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would inc...
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better g...
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.
When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There i...
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city,...
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
One day the people of the world will want peace
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?