Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.