"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."

"Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism"

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (31 August 1959)"

"We have heard much of the phrase, ''peace and friendship.'' This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, ''peace and friendship, in freedom.'' This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world."

"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."