Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is as always plotting scheming working fighting.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is and tell it like it is to find the truth to speak the truth and to live the truth.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
As this long and difficult war ends I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
If you want to make beautiful music you must play the black and the white notes together.
By the time you get dressed drive out there play 18 holes and come home you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out.
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.
