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.

Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed

To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.

Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here.

I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.