The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.