I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

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.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

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.