American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.