"I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea."

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

"The sergeant is the Army."

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

"We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words."

"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."

"Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not."

"The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both."

"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs."

"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past."

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

"There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs"

"Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers,"

"The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

"If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."

"To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift."

"Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them."

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics."

"There are as many opinions as there are experts."