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

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

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.

Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.