I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.