Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.