Pessimism never won any battle.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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.
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
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.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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.
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
The sergeant is the Army.
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
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.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
