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" The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. "

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" If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. "

" In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. "

" When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. "

" It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. "

" You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. "

" America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. "

" I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! "

" Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. "

" All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. "

" The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. "

" If you can't convince them, confuse them. "

" I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. "

" Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. "

" A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. "

" I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization. "

" You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. "

" The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. "

" In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity. "

" I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. "

" The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. "

" Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. "

" It sure is hell to be president. "

" Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. "

" Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. "

" All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. "

" Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. "

" A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. "

" We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. "

" Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. "

" When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency. "