If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.

Forgive everybody everything everyday.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

The United States of America does not have friends it has interests.

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction

The Soviets sought not a place in the sun, but the sun itself. Their objective was the world. They would not tolerate compromise on goals, only on tactics.

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong

Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.