First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

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

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.

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

I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.