I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.