In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.