 Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. |
| I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. |
| Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. |
| We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. |
| A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. |
| The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. |
| I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. Topics: Government |
| War settles nothing. |
| In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? |
| I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. |
| There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. |
| I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. Topics: Politics |
| I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. |
| We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. |
| Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. Topics: Motivational |
| Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. |
| The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. |
| In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. |
| You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. |
| I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? |
