The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.
The White House is the finest prison in the world.
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.
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.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
