We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.