People Quotes

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

I have got the utmost faith in the long-term common sense of the American people. Therefore, I don't think there should be any inhibitions other than those that were in the 35-year age limit and so on. I think that was enough, myself.

We, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.

No free people can for long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude... even we need markets in the world for the surpluses of our farms and our factories.

The impoverishment of any single people in the world means danger to the well-being of all other peoples.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.

These proposals spring, without ulterior motive or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all people - those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country.

If the people of the world are to conduct an intelligent search for peace, they must be armed with the significant facts of today's existence.

My country wants to be constructive, not destructive. It wants agreement, not wars, among nations. It wants itself to live in freedom, and in the confidence that the people of every other nation enjoy equally the right of choosing their own way of life.

Let's do in the federal Government only those things that people themselves cannot do at all, or cannot so well do in their individual capacities.

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

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments.

I say with all the earnestness that I can command, that if American mothers will teach our children that there is no end to the fight for better relationships among the people of the world, we shall have peace.