Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.