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

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.

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

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!