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"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

"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."

"From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty."

"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign."

"I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built."

"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."

"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know."

"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."

"I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea."

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."

"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?"

"When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept."

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."
History

"The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both."

"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."

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