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.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

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.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.