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“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
“If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.”
“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
“Only Americans can hurt America.”
“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.”
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
“I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.”
“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”
“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.”
“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.”
“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.”
“'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.”
“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.”
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.”
“I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.”
“I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.”