The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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.

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

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.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.