Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.