Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.

It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.