A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it..

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog..

At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But the….

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody….

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gest….

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference..

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads..

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well..

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship..

Despite his unimpressive appearance and manner, he was a brilliant fellow with a crystal-clear mind.... It was just that, when it came time for him t….

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought..

The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is….

We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has u….

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on….

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so..

I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make i….

A President cannot always be popular..

I can always get along with an honest friend..

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities..

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it..

We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after ….