You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The reward of suffering is experience.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

A President cannot always be popular.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

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 the Mount.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.