Preparedness is the key to success and victory.

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

No army has ever done so much with so little.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.