Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.

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

Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

There are no victories at discount prices.

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

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.