The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.