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.

Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society.

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.