The easiest thing to do with great power is to abuse it--to use it to excess.

The best way to keep subversives out of the Government is not to employ them in the first place.

This order shall become effective at the close of business on November 30, 1953.

Thus hastening the day when all people, of whatever nation, race, or creed, will be secure in the enjoyment of their human rights and fundamental freedoms.

I am proud to be an American!

The things that make us proud to be Americans are of the soul and of the spirit.

Let us never forget that the deep things that are American are the soul and the spirit.

It is my unshakeable conviction that no people, as such, wants war.

I personally hold that the greatest honor that can come to an individual under the various aspects of our Western civilization is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by one of our great educational institutions.

I am still hopeful that before too long I can lay this more clearly than it has yet been placed before the American people and before the world.

You raise another question, Mr. Smith, one that is of great significance; and I would hate to answer it, you might say, off the cuff because I haven't discussed the particular thing.

I believe that every soldier--every American soldier, at least-seeking to find within his own soul some reason for being on the battlefield, for enduring the things he has to endure there, has in the long run got to fix this relationship…