Here and there, there are some people who are supremely endowed, ... My memory goes back to Jim Thorpe. He never practiced in his life, and he could do anything better than any other football player I ever saw.

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)

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

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

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.

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