I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Study men, not historians.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
The reward of suffering is experience.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.