If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
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.
Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
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.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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.
If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
