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'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.  
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses bo...   Society
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist Univ...  
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell m...  
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly a...  
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.  
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The d...  
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.  
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal tho...  
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence t...  
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, si...  
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thou...  
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sa...  
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in troub...  
From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily p...  
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutio...  
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the t...  
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim ea...  
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to hav...  
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citiz...  
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left ...  
I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.  
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-on...  
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being buil...  
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has...  
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory ...  
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yard...  
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and th...  
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to ...  
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.  
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governme...   Peace
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath a...  
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have ...  
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.  
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.  
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thoug...  
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be s...  
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, g...  
In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly....  
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, bu...  
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition o...  
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's c...  
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to ha...  
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want...  
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.  
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do...  
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history ...  
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I kn...  
Oh yes, I studied dramatics under him for 12 years.  
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.   Politics
Only Americans can hurt America.  
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.  
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.  
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new...  
Our pleasures were simple-they included survival.  
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vi...  
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.   Peace
Pessimism never won any battle.  
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.  
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sens...  
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who wou...  
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it...  
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer...  
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned w...  
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not goi...  
That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always ty...  
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you...  
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday ...  
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.  
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choic...  
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading ...   History
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking f...  
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of ...  
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from w...  
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entit...  
The sergeant is the Army.  
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and t...  
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Withou...  
The United States pledges its determination to help solve the fearful ...  
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontin...  
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.  
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is tha...  
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in...  
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.  
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intel...  
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get...  
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.  
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.  
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he can...  
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, conside...  
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dat...  
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.  
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.  
We have heard much of the phrase, "peace and friendship." This phrase,...  
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.  
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.  
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do m...  
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's...  
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come t...  
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the...  
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you acce...  
You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not lea...  
You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the ot...