We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

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.

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.