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.

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

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

You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

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

Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.