I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.