In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Now all of us deplore this vast military spending. Yet, in the face of the Soviet attitude, we realize its necessity. Whatever the cost, America will keep itself secure. But in the process we must not, by our own hand, destroy or distort the American system. This we could do by useless overspending. I know one sure way to overspend. That is by overindulging sentimental attachments to outmoded military machines and concepts.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.