I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

Beware the military-industrial complex.

Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

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