A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance with the inflection of the voice? Welfare state, national socialism, radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary and a regiment of others ... these terms in today's usage, are generally compounds of confusion and prejudice. If our attitudes are muddled, our language is often to blame. A good tonic for clearer thinking is a dose of precise, legal definition.

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.