I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

-- George Washington

Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.

-- John F. Kennedy

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

-- Ronald Reagan

Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

-- Nikita Khrushchev

We do not want to belong to any side. We belong to all those who fight for their independence, their freedom, the dignity of their peoples.

-- Josip Broz Tito