Occupation: Former U.S. Senator Birth: February 25, 1888 Death: May 24, 1959
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year..
Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have th….
I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's..
I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and right….
You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brough….
Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local de….
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and sel….
The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on ta….
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail..
I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews..
Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor..
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence..
A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence..
The U.S. has no friends, only interests..
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the pot….
The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests..
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state….
Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth..
Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs..
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and sh….