“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”
Best“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”
Strength“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”
Best“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
Government“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”
Strength“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”
Leadership“I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
Good“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
Politics“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
Good“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Peace“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
Peace“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
Faith“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 include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
Intelligence“War settles nothing.”
War“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.”
War“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
War“In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?”
War“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.”
Good“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”
Fear“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
Intelligence“There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.”
Home“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”
Freedom