Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

I don't think the United States needs superpatriots. We need patriotism, honestly practiced by all of us, and we don't need these people that are more patriotic than you or anyone else.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

When we get to the point, as we one day will, that both sides know that in any outbreak of general hostilities, regardless of the element of surprise, destruction will be both reciprocal and complete, possibly we will have sense enough to meet at the conference table with the understanding that the era of armaments has ended and the human race must conform its actions to this truth or die.