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Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.
War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values
One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.
The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.
In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.
War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.
For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.
Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.
As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.
There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.
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.
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.
Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.