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

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.