If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.