I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

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

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.

'peace and friendship, in freedom.'

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.