Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.

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

Pessimism never won any battle.

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.