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

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.

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

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

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

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.