Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark... In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

Guns and tanks and planes are nothing unless there is a solid spirit, a solid heart, and great productiveness behind it.

In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.