I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

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.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.