Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

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.

In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless

More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf turns, bridges, and elongated parkways. Its impact on the American economy-the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up-was beyond calculation.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?