I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.