A good teacher is one who can understand those who are not very good at explaining, and explain to those who are not very good at understanding.

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

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.

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.