“He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag”

“Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable”

“I fired MacArthur because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was.”

“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. ”

“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.”

“The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.”

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