You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country

The president cannot escape from his office.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.