If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

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.

No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.