I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.