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.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.