What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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

We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.