“Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.”

“[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, 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.”

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”

“I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.”

“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.”

“Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...”

“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”