People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.