Born Tuesday 14 October 1890, died Friday 28 March 1969
Occupation: President
Nationality: American
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.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.